Hogzilla

[Beowulf65]

This might intrest FVR alot. Did anyone see the NatGeo show on Hogzilla?
Hogzilla was an 8 1/2 foot long 900 pound wild boar shot in Georgia. It was said to be 12 feet long and 1000 pounds but NatGeo researchers found it to be 8 1/2x1000lbs. The outfitter is said to have the largest pigs in the area ranging from 250 lbs to 690 lbs. But hogzilla is the largest wild oar ever found. I could just see FVR stalking that monster and taking him down and posting the pics here:D Hogzilla was only 7yrs old when he was shot and had mated so there may be more monster boars running around Georgia!
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7706/hogzillazx3.th.png (http://img233.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hogzillazx3.png)
THIS IS HOGZILLA
And this is Hogzilla2 which NatGeo is currently checking out!
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5364/hogzilla2db8.th.jpg (http://img502.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hogzilla2db8.jpg)

[nell67]

Wow,that is one huge pig! be eating on that for a while:eek:

[tracks]

The bottom hog was pen raised by a couple who sold it to they thought a breader turned out to be a hunting outfit,they were p#$%& OFF when he turned up on the net. I just feel sorry for the kid 11 I believe it was , The hog had been loose for three days ..

[Rick]

They have the world's largest boar at the state fair every year. I hate to go in there.

"I have more money than anyone. My house is bigger than yours. I have a Jaguar. I wear the biggest diamond you ever saw". Blah, blah, blah. What a bore!

[FVR]

Yeh, the bottom pig was farm raised then purchased by the hunting place. It was then let go, they told the kid to bring a big gun, I believe it was a 50 cal. centerfire pistol, and the kid shot it. Tracks is correct, the kid and the father did not know.

Here is the link. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/02/monster.pig.ap/index.html

There was also some bad press around the first pig also. Granite the pig is big, but there was hoopla about how the pic was taken, where it was buried and the fact that the guy did not want to dig it up for verification.

I've seen pen raised 100% Russians in the 550lb range, monsters. Big tusks, and when I held the itty bitty 50 cal. ball up next to him, naaaa, I wouldn't shoot him. He'd kill me.

I forget his name, but he was the sweetest boar you would have ever wanted to meet. Come right up to the fence and you could rub his nose. It was a college raised critter and they wanted to move him. Problem, he did not want to move. So they put it off for a few weeks.


You can't find much about Hogzilla because they are making a movie of it and that's all you are going to find. Have to watch the movie I guess.

Chances are, it was a dom. pig that was let go. Again, it was killed on an animal farm type hunting area. Wild hogs don't get that big, they just don't.

[tracks]

True FVR I trap hogs around here with live traps and snares. These are real deal hogs and some in the 400 lb range. A thousand pound hog in the woods would resemble HOPEAKS D-8 and would be nearly impossible to get close enough to kill with a pistol unless you devoted a lot of time to one particular animal....And imagine the food source this animal would require in the wild .

[canid]

i don't even know what to say about that last photo but when you look at the photo of the original hogzilla, it's obvious that the animal is no more than about 8ft. in length, snout to toe. i don't personaly believe that it could have weighed more than 600lb.

[Beowulf65]

According to National Geographic Hogzilla was an 8 1/2 foot long 826 pound wild boar shot in Georgia on a hog farm (guide service) and was wild but his mother was a domestic and his father was a wild one. He ate a 60 or 70 pound bag of some feed that makes them grow huge. NatGeo will be running the show again on January 30th at 7pm eastern.

[trax]

What's far more important to the discussion...who has a frying pan that's four feet in diameter? I'm thinking really big strips of bacon (droooollll, mmmm, baaaaconnn)

[nell67]

Nell loves bacon mmmm

[canid]

i saw the show and they based the estimated wight on the remains and the degree of decomposition. in other words, they guessed. i can be in denial can't i?

[rebel]

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[canid]

they are only a problem for some. my state actually imported and released them intentionally, and they are an important big game species here.

that explorer episode the aired again. makes me want to get out on the river and go hunting.

[WildGoth]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm bacon i would love a piece of that man oh man (mouth starts watering little man in a canoe starts fishing)

[trax]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm bacon i would love a piece of that man oh man (mouth starts watering little man in a canoe starts fishing)

well stated WG, can we get back to the question of the giant frying pan, Please?

[canid]

i've got my eye on a 3' wok, but that wouldn't cut it. even in batches you might be hard pressed to get that beast fried up before it turned...

[WildGoth]

i looked it up the bottom pic is being made into like 1000 saugauges

[canid]

are we talking breakfast links or cumberlands, 'cause that's not a boat load of bangers

[trax]

are we talking breakfast links or cumberlands, 'cause that's not a boat load of bangers

that's the kind of investigative journalism I like to see. questions that really matter, thanks canid.

[crashdive123]

Lived in Hawaii for awhile. Dig a pit (Imu) get a good bed of coals, cover, bake and before you know it we're having a party.

[FVR]

Both of those critters were raised and GROWN to their size by other than naturally found foods.

Then killed or harvested more likely, like a farmer cuts down corn.

But hey, that's what hunting is turning into. Get your land, attract the deer, feed them special nutrient based foods to enhance their antlers and size, then sit in a box and when they show up to eat, kill them.

This gives those that kill them a false sense of hunting, but they don't care cause it's all about size.

Maybe they are trying to compensate for something?